Regional roughness parameters and momentum fluxes over a complex area

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2179-2190

  Hiyama, Tetsuya ^a,b   Sugita, Michiaki ^a   Kotoda, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; COMPLEX TERRAIN; WIND PROFILES;

COMPLEX TERRAIN; DISPLACEMENT HEIGHT; MOMENTUM FLUX; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 0030812122     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<2179:rrpamf>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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